this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. pet charles is all former marine and senior historian for the u.s. airport and the author of the book "armed in america." -- patrick charles. thank you for being with us on c-span. >mr. charles: thank you, steve. let me begin with the origin of the national rifle association. how did it come about and why? mr. charles: it came back during the civil war. two officers decided to form the nra based out of new york with two purposes. one was to facilitate and grow long-range rifle ranges and the other was to assist the state national guard's in marksmanship. just so youially, know, was kind of working to get appropriations from the government and they started off with one organization. they grew to 1700 by 1929. are, just so you know, there is an english national rifle association. this is supposed to be the american version. the only thing differentiating start off with was the franchise like model where you could build a rifle club, statewide and you were a nra affiliated rifle club and

this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. pet charles is all former marine and senior historian for the u.s. airport and the author of the book "armed in america." -- patrick charles. thank you for being with us on c-span. >mr. charles: thank you, steve. lete:

this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. >> george aumoithe is a postdoctoral research associate at princeton university and he is joining us from our studios in new york. thanks for being with us on american history tv. george: thanks for having me. steve: you have devoted a considerable amount of time studying medicare and medicaid. legislation was signed into law in 1965 by lyndon johnson. part of the great society program. take us back to that time. and how this legislation was significant at the time and how it has evolved in the last 50 plus years. george: that's a great question to start off with. medicare and medicaid passed in july, 1965. medicaid was really an afterthought in the legislative drafting process. the law's ratification shortly after the assassination of president john f. kennedy meant that there was a greater focus on the medicare law and there were certain historical reasons for this. medicare began and grew out in 1960 which also grew out of the medical aid for a program, which was a new deal era program that began in

meeting of the american historical association in new york city, professor -- from the annual meeting of the american historical association in new york city, professor thomas balcerski talks about the providence of drinking in the political and social life before the civil war. host: joining us from the new york is a professor in eastern connecticut state university, the author of the book "bossom friends, the intimate world of buchanan and king." thanks for joi u

this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. is a: amira rose davis professed or -- professor of history at penn state college in pennsylvania and is working on a book about the lives and labors of women athletes in the age of jim crow. thanks for joining us on american history tv. professor davis: thanks for having me. steve: let me begin with your book, expected to be published in about a year. what have you learned so far? professor davis: so many things. i started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports? i found more than i expected to find. there wasn't any archive labeled history of black women in sports. by the time i pieced it together, i would say i got started by finding three women who played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950's. it was a remarkable story. they played with the man. one thing that stuck out about that story was that the owner who had brought in these black women to play against the men said he had something called the gal file, where women and young girls were writin

this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. york isng us from new ran zwigenberg a professor of asian and jewish studies at penn state. the author of hiroshima and the global origins of memory. thank you for joining us on c-span's american history tv. >> thank you for having me. >> you look at the two significant impacts upward or two, the holocaust and its impact on jews around the world and of course the bombings and reshma and nagasaki which ended the war in 1945. has your research shown? my research now is on the psychiatric reaction, direction of the psychiatric establishment and that dealt with communities of survivors both in hiroshima and nagasaki and in the case of the holocaust. my first book on hiroshima talks about memory culture, the politics of memory that surround those two places and my first look at one chapter of that a psychiatrist who came to hiroshima and worked with hiroshima survivors and laser -- later also connected to people with holocaust survivors. my current research takes this chapter and expands i

this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting.aumoithe is joining us from our studios in new york. thanks for being with us

meeting of the american historical association in new york city, professor -- from the annual meeting of the american historical association in new york city, professor thomas balcerski talks about the providence of drinking in the political and social life before the civil war. host: joining us from the new york is a professor in eastern connecticut state university, the author of the book "bossom friends, the intimate world of buchanan and king." thanks for joining us. i want to begin with research you conducted on the congressional temperance society back in the mid-1800's. exactly what was that and why is it significant? dr. balcerski: yes. the congressional temperance society in a way is a reflection of a larger movement at this time in america that is to say the temperance movement. it is almost a phenomenon to this larger national movement. there was an organization called the american temperance society, which was founded in the 1820's with the goal to lessen the consumption of alcohol. they were not yet committed to full abstinence or tea totaling. so that the congres

this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. york isng us from new ran zwigenberg a professor of asian and jewish studies at penn state. the author of hiroshima and the global origins of memory. thank you for joining us on c-span's american history tv. >> thank you for having me. >> you look at the two significant impacts upward or two, the holocaust and its impact on jews around the world and of course the bombings and reshma and nagasaki

this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting.

this interview was recorded at the annual american historical association meeting. >> george aumoithe is a postdoctoral research associate at princeton university and he is joining us from our studios in new york. thanks for being with us on american history tv.